Sentence examples for ordinary measures from inspiring English sources

"Everyone wanted to treat Greece with ordinary measures," Mr. Hollande said.

To take a step back, remember the "ordinary measures" of central banks around the world are to raise and lower short-term interest rates.

As the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, even figuring widespread resistance to some of the advice--such as obeying speed limits and carpooling--these ordinary measures, if universally adopted, could trim U.S. carbon emissions by over 100 million metric tons--more than 7%--within a decade.

"When children's lives are at stake, you cannot stop at ordinary measures," said Dorothy Rozga, UNICEF Ghana Representative.

We believe that they are more accurate for the capture of complex spatial manifestations of the multi-dimensional land use strategies of rural households (Wiesmann et al. 2000) than are ordinary measures such as paddy land per community area or forests per watershed, etc.

Hannan, who is 45, is by no ordinary measure a front-rank British politician.

(Russia cannot be understood with the mind, / She cannot be measured by ordinary measure: / She has her own particular stance — /All you can do is believe in her).

Many of these new patients spent years enjoying not just an ordinary measure of prosperity but the often-outsize financial, emotional and social rewards that accompanied the boom.

H.B. 2 may have seemed an ordinary measure of culture-war politics when the governor signed it, but the consensus position on L.G.B.T.Q.

Bill Gates, the boss of Microsoft and Mr Jobs's nemesis by any ordinary measure of business success he is the one with the operating-system monopoly, after all would kill to get Apple's enthusiastic product reviews.

The first kind is the ordinary measuring of quantities relative to each other ('the great and small').